Evangelion rip-off

This is not an Evangelion



This is not an angel

I'm just watching a really fun anime - Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor.

The anime itself is kinda cool, but one thing that is really striking is how much they ripped off Neon Genesis Evangelion.

So we have:

• Evangelions (or Evangelion-looking huge robots)
• and their teenage pilots
• angels (or angel-looking huge angels)
• NERV (or NERV-looking huge secret organization fighting angel-looking huge angels using Evangelion-looking huge robots piloted by teenagers)
• one of the teenagers who pilot the robots is son of the boss
  
• cabalistic symbolics
• traditional military trying to fight the angels and getting their ass kicked even though they knew perfectly there's no point is using traditional military for that purpose
• even those weird insect sounds in the background
• probably a lot more stuff like that
  

So far there haven't been any pet penguins, but the series is just taking off ;-)

Don't get me wrong - it's a cool anime, and not everything in it is Evangelion rip-off ;-)